<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P align="justify" style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Class, </P><P align="justify" style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have put up a class website that posts an initial assignmet. Please have a look:</P><P align="justify" style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://classes.berklee.edu/nleonard/padova/index.html">http://classes.berklee.edu/nleonard/padova/index.html</A></P><P align="justify" style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best regards,</P><P align="justify" style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><DIV style="text-align: auto;">Neil</DIV><P align="justify" style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P></P><P align="justify" style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><B>Preliminary Assignment:</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Read each of the following texts. PDF files and/or links are provided for each.</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Luigi Russolo, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.homolaicus.com/arte/futurism/testi/artrum.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#8A64C8">L'arte dei rumor - [click here]</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> E. T. Marinetti and Pino Mansata, </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.kunstradio.at/2002A/27_01_02/laradia-it.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#8A64C8">La Radia - [click here]</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> Excerpt from a selected Biennale di Venezia catalog - TBA</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Choose one of these and write a 100 word summary on this text to present in class. Your summary can be written in Italian or English. Part of the first class will be devoted to a discussion of how these ideas could be explored in a sonic work.</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#133209" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Email to text to me no later than 24 hours prior to the beginning of the next class (Marzo 29 ore 16:00 deadline). I will add your texts an online forum featuring our findings.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Neil Leonard</DIV><DIV>Associate Professor</DIV><DIV>Music Synthesis Department</DIV><DIV>Berklee College of Music</DIV><DIV>617.747.8402</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:nleonard@berklee.edu">nleonard@berklee.edu</A></DIV><DIV>www.neilleonard.com</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In Padova, Italy until Aug '06:</DIV><DIV>39-340 8121882 (cell)</DIV><DIV>39-049751744 (house)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>